Chapter 46: Chapter 46: Ghost Grudge Curse
"Very well," Li Changqing took Mu Qingge’s words as re pleasantries and nodded.
"Then when will you co, Daoist Friend Changqing?" Mu Qingge asked subconsciously.
But after asking this, Mu Qingge was montarily stunned.
Li Changqing was even more bewildered. Who asks like that?
Xu Muhai and Yin Changli were equally astonished, looking at Mu Qingge.
The Immortal Mu of the dical King Valley was pursued by countless young talents, the line to propose to her could stretch from the gates of the Mountain Ancient Land to the Cloud Wasteland!
Many ca with marriage proposals but were rejected by Mu Qingge. It was unheard of for Mu Qingge to invite soone as a guest and then inquire about when they would arrive.
This is odd.
Li Changqing also felt a bit embarrassed, uncertain of how to respond.
Mu Qingge also felt she had been abrupt and was about to say sothing to alleviate the awkward situation when suddenly Li Changqing’s pupils contracted, his gaze focused on Mu Qingge’s neck.
"What’s that? Did the Immortal Mu always have it?" Li Changqing asked in surprise.
"What?" Mu Qingge instinctively reached up to touch her neck but felt nothing, so she took out a bronze mirror from her bosom to have a look.
This look was quite enough, for Mu Qingge’s face changed color imdiately.
Mu Qingge found a strange mark on her jade-white neck, resembling a tiny baby’s paw.
Or rather, it looked exactly like the paw prints of the Ghost Children they had encountered before.
Mu Qingge rubbed at it, but found it didn’t co off, as if it were branded onto her skin.
"You have one too, Daoist Friend Xu." Li Changqing looked at Xu Muhai, and indeed, Xu Muhai also had one on his neck.
"I have one too?" Xu Muhai frowned deeply.
"No way, do I have one?" Yin Changli asked anxiously.
He quickly tilted his neck for Li Changqing to see.
Sure enough, there was a small Ghost Paw mark on Yin Changli’s neck too.
Upon seeing Li Changqing nod, Yin Changli’s face also changed.
"Do I have one?" Li Changqing quickly tilted his neck for the others to see, but when they saw nothing on Li Changqing’s neck, they all shook their heads.
"What is this thing?"
Relieved that he didn’t have it, Li Changqing was nonetheless curious about what it was.
"Immortal Mu, what do you think?" Xu Muhai, not understanding this much, looked to Mu Qingge, thinking she, being a descendant of the dical King Valley, should know sothing about it.
Li Changqing also looked at Mu Qingge.
Mu Qingge’s face was still sowhat pale at this mont.
"This is... the Ghost Grudge Curse." Mu Qingge’s eyes were sowhat vacant.
"Ghost Grudge Curse?" Xu Muhai’s eyes widened, obviously having heard of it before.
Only Li Changqing remained calm, waiting for the two to explain it.
But the two remained silent for a long ti.
"Master, what is the Ghost Grudge Curse?" Yin Changli asked anxiously, "Can it kill people?"
Li Changqing was very pleased with Yin Changli for asking this.
"The Ghost Grudge Curse originates from the Ghost Race, it’s a secret technique of the Ghost Spirit Race," Mu Qingge explained, "The Ghost Grudge Curse is a curse released at the cost of one’s own life force, and those afflicted with it have a special kind of Ghost Qi concealed within their bodies."
"When this Ghost Qi erupts, it tornts people until they wish they were dead."
"In the past, the Ghost Spirit Race used the Ghost Grudge Curse to control people, and now that we are afflicted with it, it indicates that soone can manipulate the Ghost Qi within us to torture us."
Mu Qingge looked gravely at Xu Muhai.
"Rather than having Ghost Children replace us, they used the Ghost Grudge Curse?" Xu Muhai took a deep breath, "It seems these people have a grand sche."
Mu Qingge nodded, "Do you rember the words of the boy in the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall? He ntioned one na, the Longevity Sect."
"Never heard of it," Xu Muhai shook his head.
"Master, how do we cure this Ghost Grudge Curse?" Yin Changli quickly asked, not wanting to experience the tornt Mu Qingge described.
"I don’t know. We need to return to the sect and ask my father," Mu Qingge said. Even though she recognized it as the Ghost Grudge Curse, it had been lost for many years, and there were no records in the dical King Valley, so she had no idea how to dispel it.
Seeing that even his master didn’t know, Yin Changli was nearly in tears.
His path to becoming a Sword Immortal might end before it even began.
As they spoke, Xu Muhai seed unwell. He frowned, the small mark on his neck started spreading, emitting black Ghost Qi.
"Peak Master Xu." Li Changqing was startled by this scene.
Xu Muhai suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, his eyes turned bloodshot, and he began trembling uncontrollably, a low growl of pain escaping his throat.
Strong as Xu Muhai was, his willpower extraordinarily strong, even so, he was now collapsing.
"Daoist Friend Xu!" Mu Qingge waved her hand, launching several silver needles that pierced different acupuncture points on Xu Muhai’s body.
This was ant to help Xu Muhai relieve pain.
But even after the silver needles pierced his acupuncture points, Xu Muhai’s symptoms did not alleviate at all.
"Ah!!"
Xu Muhai cried out in agony and then suddenly, as if possessed, got up and dashed towards the distant stone wall.
Bang!
A dull thud, as Xu Muhai hit his head hard against the wall, blood streaming down, he was clearly tornted to the extre by the Ghost Qi enveloping him.
"Oh my god!" Yin Changli exclaid, "Is it that painful?"
What if the sa happened to him?
Seeing Xu Muhai about to bash his head again, Li Changqing feared he would kill himself, so he quickly used a restraining technique, forcibly immobilizing Xu Muhai.
"Watch him," Li Changqing said, then the Longevity Wood behind him flew over.
Li Changqing took out so tools and started carving.
At that mont, Xu Muhai’s entire body was taut with pain, seemingly on the verge of ntal collapse.
Mu Qingge herself tried various thods to help relieve Xu Muhai’s suffering.
But she found that her dical skills were completely ineffective against the Ghost Grudge Curse, leaving even this proud heir of the dical King Valley helpless.
After a quarter of an hour, a small carved Buddha appeared in Li Changqing’s hands.
This wooden Buddha held a monk’s staff, with a Spirit Beast beneath its feet, one no one had ever seen before.
Li Changqing requested a thread from Mu Qingge, strung the Buddha on it, and hung it around Xu Muhai’s neck.
In an instant, the Ghost Qi on Xu Muhai receded like a tide.
Xu Muhai collapsed to the ground, drenched in sweat.
The previous agony had drained his will, and though he was no longer in pain, he couldn’t speak for a long ti, utterly exhausted.
"Looks like it worked."
Li Changqing had carved a small statue of the K??itigarbha Bodhisattva.
Only with it hung on Xu Muhai’s neck was the Ghost Qi suppressed.
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